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Policy over the next few days. this is a significant moment for president biden and for secretary blinken, too. >> reporter: and there's no shortage of issues to talk about. i would add to the list climate change. there's a big climate summit coming up next month, so watch for the president to lay some of the groundwork for that. you have cyber security, and of course covid. the u.s. has coming under a lot of heat from global public health officials over this booster program and the u.s. looking to start giving surge shots when so much of the world, global hell leaders say, still haven't gotte...

I'm troubled that people are complaining that the process isn't working for them. the process is to look at the data, have the experts consider it and make their judgment at that point, recognizing judgments may change. if people want an authoritarian statement that this is the right answer, you won't get it here. move to china, you'll get it there. chris: president biden said -- he announced on august 18th, he did have a line about pending approval of the fda and the cdc but he talked about starting a booster program on september 20th, that's tomorrow. and he talked about giving it to all peo...

Idea one month ago. >> the plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. pending approval from the food and drug administration, the cdc's committee of outside experts will be ready to start these boosters -- this booster program during the week of september 20. >> so dr. jesse goodman, the fda's former chief scientist, told cnn friday that biden making that announcement a month ahead of time, before the fda and cdc made theirs was, quote, backwards and not helpful, and at the very least, even though he did say pending approval. this is causing more...

I'm troubled that people are complaining that the process isn't working for them. the process is to look at the data, have the experts consider it and make their judgment at that point, recognizing judgments may change. if people want an authoritarian statement that this is the right answer, you won't get it here. move to china, you'll get it there. chris: president biden said -- he announced on august 18th, he did have a line about pending approval of the fda and the cdc but he talked about starting a booster program on september 20th, that's tomorrow. and he talked about giving it to all peo...

Administration of boosters may need to be enlarged, based upon the data that we've already seen both in the u.s. and in israel, it's clear the waning of the effectiveness of those vaccines is a reality and we need to respond to it. but they looked at where we were on friday and said here's where the data's convincing to start now and we'll see what cdc says later this week. chris: but just to be clear, what you're saying is you still think, around i understand the -- and i understand the people further down the list, younger people, healthier people didn't get their vaccine as early in the pro...